remittent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: remittent	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for remittent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
remittent adj (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Remittent \Remit"tent\ (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. r[82]mittent.] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. {Remittent* fever} (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See {Malarial fever}, under {Malarial}.